Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann today chided President Barack Obama for holding a 50th birthday party on Thursday night, even though the stock market had plummeted.

“The birthday present he got was huge drop of 512 points in the market and not only that, what was the president’s response? He threw a barbecue last night at the White House to celebrate,” Bachmann said at an event in the Pizza Ranch parking lot in Newton.

“One thing I will guarantee you, President Bachmann will be canceling barbecues if we see the market go down and if we see the jobs report going down,” she said.

Well, that’s a relief, I guess, unless you’re in the business of catering barbecues at the White House.

Bachmann attributed the market drop to investor dissatisfaction with the deal to reduce the debt ceiling. She didn’t mention that the agreement was a bi-partisan one that passed Congress with votes to spare.

She also blasted Obama on the new jobs report, which showed only 117,000 jobs were created in the past month. “He created double the number of donors for his re-election campaign as he did new jobs in the private sector,” she said.